Like how do you KNOW you have more empathy than others. You don’t…… you base your idea of other peoples empathy levels on what? How people react?? Emotions are internal outside expression doesn’t always fully represent that. Not very empathetic of you to assume you know how much empathy others feel. Do I think empaths are real? Yeah, probably. Are they the people who run around calling themselves empaths to be put on some moral high ground? No, probably not.
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some people like playing the role of the hero just so they can pat themselves on the back
Ive had several empathys insist something is wrong as they can feel the energy. Im just introverted / quiet and awkward, and youre making me feel more weird for insisting Im unhappy
I’ve always assumed if someone says they’re an empath that they aren’t.
Because when I meet another human I simply assume you are capable of empathy. Making me aware of it is just fucking weird.
It’s like going “I’m an oxygen breather”
Yea no shit Sherlock
I don’t think it should be about having “more empathy than others” if you feel you’re an empath/empathetic I see it as relying more heavily on your emotions to process situations and to understand others, you often put yourself in other people’s shoes and that’s how you try connect to them.
You can definitely read people incorrectly because while you can read expressions like any other person, you could also be projecting your emotions on someone when they don’t feel the same way that you do about things. Like you assume someone is upset about something they might not be upset about. I would consider myself somewhat of an empath but I also misread people all the time and I’m overly conscious of making others upset. It’s also not a huge part of my personality regardless lol
Empaths are just new-age attention seekers.
If anyone around them is experiencing any degree of emotion, the ‘empath’ makes it all about them.
This is great actually. Most are performative simply because they’re people pleasers. Saying you’re an empath at this point in life is 100% performative too. Aren’t we all? Lol
People who call themselves empaths think they’re magic and people who actually have high empathy don’t call themselves empaths. Having high empathy just burns you out and makes you seem like more of a dick longterm most of the time.
Every “empath” I’ve met has been a narcissist who just assumes people feel the way they feel.
What a wonderfully worded post. I completely agree. It’s like anything else that humans use as a cry for attention, or to be considered special (when they aren’t). Kind of like EVERYONE now is some “art-eest,” amateur animal rescuer (stress on the amateur, know-nothing-about-animals part), or even those who SAY they suffer from anxiety or autism, with zero medical record to even back up those claims. I consider it all a virtue signaling bandwagon of sorts or a simple cry for attention.